Dreams of Earthquakes along Andreas Creek Sweatshirt

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Dreams of earthquakes along Andreas Creek in Palm Springs California. Andreas Creek defines the San Andreas fault as it winds a serpentine path along the length of California. As the creek makes its way downward from the source it forms a number of small cascades, small waterfalls like the one in this image. With the help of Topaz Labs Simplify 4 filter, I created four images of this cascade to serve as layers which I then merged into this single image. The image takes on a surreal look as if in a dream of earthquakes yet to disrupt the Coachella Valley.

I processed the raw image file using Photomatix Pro 5, filters from Topaz Labs including Detail 3 and DeJPEG 4 as well as some minor tweaking in Photoshop including sCurve adjustments, brightness, saturation and the camera raw filter. Finally, textured layers were added to produce this texture blended image.

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